Having severe difficulty to highlight words, lines, paragraphs etc., in Word. Any quick fixes?

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I have Windows 10. As in the title above suddenly have this issue. Quite annoying and time consuming.

 

I've done some surfing but I'm lost what to do next.

 

Any suggestions much appreciated.

 

Thanks.

[FritsSikkink]

Have a look at YouTube, loads of free tutorials

[KannikaP]

uninstall office then r-install

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I found an easy remedy:

• - As you would do in any approach put the cursor just before the first letter of the text you want to highlight.
• - Now hold down one of the 'Shift' buttons. 
• - Now run your mouse along whatever you want to highlight.

It's worked every time.

[steven100]

I have the same problem,  to try to copy and paste a word or sentence the highlighting jumps from one word to the next and all over the shop ... it does work properly after 5-6 attempts but it's damn annoying.

 

I will try your solution scorecard. thanks

[ignis]

17 hours ago, KannikaP said:

uninstall office then r-install

Not sure it has anything to do with M$ Office

 

I have the same problem, but use WPS Office  for many years, this problem started a few weeks ago  Yes it's  annoying...

 

Maybe a Windows update ?

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5 minutes ago, ignis said:

Not sure it has anything to do with M$ Office

 

I have the same problem, but use WPS Office  for many years, this problem started a few weeks ago  Yes it's  annoying...

 

Maybe a Windows update ?

Re-send...

I found an easy remedy:

• - As you would do in any approach put the cursor just before the first letter of the text you want to highlight.
• - Now hold down one of the 'Shift' buttons. 
• - Now run your mouse along whatever you want to highlight.

It's working with no bumps, so far so good...

[steven100]

16 minutes ago, ignis said:

Maybe a Windows update ?

I think your onto something ....   I have the same problem,  difficult to highlight a sentence to copy and paste.

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40 minutes ago, steven100 said:

I think your onto something ....   I have the same problem,  difficult to highlight a sentence to copy and paste.

I had the same problem.

Re-send...

I found an easy remedy:

• - As you would do in any approach put the cursor just before the first letter of the text you want to highlight.
• - Now hold down one of the 'Shift' buttons. 
• - Now run your mouse along whatever you want to highlight.

It's working with no bumps, so far so good...

 

[KannikaP]

Try a different mouse.

[lungbing]

When I want to cut and paste I start my highlighting from the end of the cut and work back to the start point, then hit ctrl-C.  I find it more controlable.

[London Lowf]

7 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Try a different mouse.

This.

 

You shouldn't have to touch the shift key, just hold down the left button on the mouse as you're selecting the required section..